Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 05:00:09 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>, John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>,
       alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.0-test1
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On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:50:40PM +0100, John Bradford wrote:
>> Oh well, it just seems strange to be asking people to test
>> 2.6.0-root-my-box, without making the consequences a bit clearer.

On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:53:13PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> If you don't have the time/energy to trawl linux-kernel, testing the
> many zillions of `sploits out there to see what works and what doesn't
> may be more fun. (Although most if not all should be failing, so it
> may also get boring very quickly). It'd be nice if someone like osdl
> could add such testing to nightly regression tests. Some of them may
> even be candidates for LTP perhaps ?

Some work has been done here, though I'm not sure how much; I'll try to
get the IBM people involved with it to chime in.


-- wli
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